Editorial, Chris Davis, Pincher Creek Voice
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If that's not enough money, then I say scrap the league and say greed killed it.
I'd gladly trade the revenue hit to the taxpayer-funded stadiums for a guarantee that we won't build them another playpen ever again. The long-term savings would be a boon to our community sports programs, our education systems, our end of the day take home pay. Why should taxpayers and ticket holders pay ever more ridiculous amounts so that multi-millionaire grownups can chase the puck around for a few months every year on our dime and call it a job? With salaries the way they are, ticket prices have long ago soared to where the average chump taxpayers like me can't afford to go to an NHL game anyway.
Here's an idea. Let's all go watch minor hockey for a season instead. Let's encourage kids to play a game for the love of it, and for the exercise and team-building lessons. Let's go watch the fun leagues have some fun. Let's watch some RHL, with real local talent. Let's take our wives out to dinner, or go to a movie. Let's stop perpetrating the madness that playing a game has an extravagantly higher value than almost any other "job" in our culture.
I hope these guys do strike. I hope the NHL shuts it down for a year. Or two. Enough time for all of us to rethink the situation. Hockey fans are being held hostage by our entertainers. Perhaps the only way to fix that is to let them go and find new ones. Heads up, NHL athletes. You can be replaced.
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Professional Hockey has become a major business and like an addict that needs a daily fix There are many communities like Edmonton Alberta for example that have trotted out the fearmongering of the team will leave town if their playpen isn't built on our tax dime. Using tax dollars to build thes playpens affects every taxpayer in a province or state that builds these luxurious playpens on the taxpayer dime. If the fear of losing an NHL hockey team from any community is trotted forward than let them go. the key is, if the team is making money like the Oilers are in the Alberta NHL league. Why would they leave a lucrative maarket for a market that is uncertain? It is all a bunch of smoke and mirrors in order to scare addicts into coughing up taxpayers money from all of us not only the communities where the playpen is built. This for a quick fix for a staunch few diehard addicts. We need to get back to the love of the game as Chris mentioned. This is what made Canada great in the first place. It was the backyard and street hockey leagues across this great nation. In total agreement to getting back to the basics and let us support minor hockey from now on in order to get back to our roots and the love of the game instead of the love of money. Let us turn the taps off now while we have the chance.
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